Comments on: Texas Activists Continue Battling Elite’s Toll Road Scheme http://militantlibertarian.org/2010/01/16/texas-activists-continue-battling-elites-toll-road-scheme/ Give me liberty or eat lead! Tue, 22 May 2012 18:14:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Militant Libertarian http://militantlibertarian.org/2010/01/16/texas-activists-continue-battling-elites-toll-road-scheme/comment-page-1/#comment-231 Militant Libertarian Sat, 16 Jan 2010 18:59:45 +0000 http://militantlibertarian.org/?p=3693#comment-231 I wish you all luck and would hope that more would join. During the building of the internstate system, the only group to get any attention doing this were farmers, who literally parked their own heavy equipment directly in the path of the equipment being used to build the freeway until concessions were made to give them underpasses and access to their now-split properties. The key for them was solidarity and making the process of building the fwy without their cooperation so expensive that the government was forced to comply instead. Having a cause the press was happy to report didn't hurt either. In our case, we can't count on the latter and, to be honest, I'm not so sure about the solidarity either. When the Waco-like sieges start... who will truly stand? On the other hand, it could be one of the galvanizers that brings patriots together. By the way, shooting the highway workers is probably not a good idea from either a legal or PR standpoint. You'd lose more than you'd ever gain in that scenario. The number one aim of any guerrilla war is to make the war too costly for the enemy through both direct action and public relations. Many times, PR is even more important than actual engagement. Knock out their machinery and they have to use picks and shovels to do the work. Take away their public support and they have to spend money winning it back. Cause the workers on the projects to lose their will to do the work, and they have to be either replaced or re-invigorated. Do all three and you destroy their project. These are the basics and they are the reasons we aren't ever going to win in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, and why we lost in Vietnam. I wish you all luck and would hope that more would join. During the building of the internstate system, the only group to get any attention doing this were farmers, who literally parked their own heavy equipment directly in the path of the equipment being used to build the freeway until concessions were made to give them underpasses and access to their now-split properties.

The key for them was solidarity and making the process of building the fwy without their cooperation so expensive that the government was forced to comply instead. Having a cause the press was happy to report didn’t hurt either.

In our case, we can’t count on the latter and, to be honest, I’m not so sure about the solidarity either. When the Waco-like sieges start… who will truly stand?

On the other hand, it could be one of the galvanizers that brings patriots together.

By the way, shooting the highway workers is probably not a good idea from either a legal or PR standpoint. You’d lose more than you’d ever gain in that scenario. The number one aim of any guerrilla war is to make the war too costly for the enemy through both direct action and public relations. Many times, PR is even more important than actual engagement.

Knock out their machinery and they have to use picks and shovels to do the work. Take away their public support and they have to spend money winning it back. Cause the workers on the projects to lose their will to do the work, and they have to be either replaced or re-invigorated. Do all three and you destroy their project.

These are the basics and they are the reasons we aren’t ever going to win in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, and why we lost in Vietnam.

]]> By: LibertyCzar http://militantlibertarian.org/2010/01/16/texas-activists-continue-battling-elites-toll-road-scheme/comment-page-1/#comment-229 LibertyCzar Sat, 16 Jan 2010 18:49:19 +0000 http://militantlibertarian.org/?p=3693#comment-229 I know many a man whose property would be siezed and steamrolled by the NAFTA highway in Oklahoma, including some of my own. I can say with confidence that if they ever succeeded in building this highway, those of us with land in the way would never agree to conscent, and if they did it anyway, their construction workers had better be wearing kevlar, for it'll be raining lead while they lay asphalt. I know many a man whose property would be siezed and steamrolled by the NAFTA highway in Oklahoma, including some of my own. I can say with confidence that if they ever succeeded in building this highway, those of us with land in the way would never agree to conscent, and if they did it anyway, their construction workers had better be wearing kevlar, for it’ll be raining lead while they lay asphalt.

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